
Solopreneur Success Path · 30 min
Summary: In this episode of the Solopreneur Success Path , host Tom Clairmont welcomes Kayla McGuire , a seasoned strategic advisor and project management coach based in Bentonville, Arkansas. Kayla is the founder of Kayla McGuire Consulting, where she has dedicated over 15 years to helping entrepreneurs launch and scale their startups. Kayla shares her journey from being a project manager in a tech startup to becoming a successful freelancer. She discusses the pivotal moments that led her to start her own consulting business in 2020, including the challenges she faced and how she leveraged her skills to overcome them. Tom and Kayla dive into the essentials of project management, emphasizing the importance of communication, collaboration, and leadership. Kayla highlights how modern project management tools and AI are transforming the industry, allowing project managers to focus more on strategic and human-centric skills. Kayla also talks about her contributions to the book Executing Excellence , co-authored by ten project managers, and how LinkedIn has been instrumental in her career.